Houseplants bring a lot of joy at any time of the year but particularly so during the winter months. At this time, their presence can brighten the gloomiest of days. Make sure you choose the right plant for the right location, so your houseplant thrives rather than just survives! Which types of house [...]

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Christmas cactus is a colourful house plant which brightens up any room during the winter months. Find out how to propagate Christmas cactus for more striking house plants over the festive period. What is a Christmas cactus? Christmas cacti (Schlumbergera) is technically a succulent, rather than a cactus. The classification [...]

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Unlike a north-facing room, south-facing rooms get the most direct sunlight throughout the day. This consistent sunlight can be great for the sun-loving houseplants in your home office, but take care with potential extreme light and heat. Crassula ovata (Jade Plant) 'Money Plant' A bushy succulent evergreen sub-shrub. It has fleshy, [...]

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My exhibit at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show has been designed to showcase 50 of the most popular indoor plants for UK homes. Using these plants I will be illustrating the health and wellbeing these plants have on us and why we should have more houseplants in our homes. The exhibit takes inspiration from [...]

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For more house plant ideas, check out my blog: Or check out my Pinterest board for more ideas: House Plants To Boost Your Mood Pinterest Board [...]

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Houseplants can bring joy to any home type, whether you have a city flat with a balcony or a townhouse with a paved garden. In fact, it can be incredible to see so many dynamic ways to display houseplants in smaller spaces to make the most of the room. So, here are my top [...]

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Having houseplants in your home is a wonderful way of bringing some nature indoors. Sometimes they may become overgrown, but this doesn’t mean you need to chop it down straight away. Instead, by air layering you can propagate them to give you a whole new houseplant or garden plant. What is [...]

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Whether you’ve heard of kokedama before or not, you’ll be sure to want to create your own when you see just how easy they are to make and how stunning they look. Adding these to your houseplant collection is a great way to add something special. What is kokedama? Kokedama is [...]

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I truly believe there is a houseplant to suit everyone. So, what better way to find your perfect houseplant than to find one suited to your specific personality type? According to the Myers-Briggs Personality Type, there are 16 types, which are decided on through a person’s level of introversion or extraversion, how an individual [...]

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Whether you live in a house with floor to ceiling windows or a North facing flat, there is a houseplant that suits you and your home. With a huge variety of indoor plants out there, there are many that don’t need bright light, in fact some thrive in shadier spots. So, here are a [...]

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Spring is in the air, and the brilliantly coloured blooms we’ve been eagerly anticipating are exploding into life all around us. April is traditionally a month of showers but, with the weather warming there will be plenty to do in the garden. There’s a whole catalogue of exciting reasons to get outdoors and into [...]

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Few would dispute that dotting a few plants around a house makes it feel more like a home. Nothing brightens up a shady corner better than a beautiful peace lily. Or serves as a better centrepiece than a dainty orchid. Yet, according to the latest research, there are far more reasons to get [...]

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Houseplants are such an incredible way to bring warmth and life into the home at any time of the year. Right now, while it is cold outside and the garden has not yet woken for spring, it’s an especially good time to focus your energies on warming up your home with beautiful houseplants. [...]

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